avolpe·2 years ago·discussYou are right, for Spring Boot, the relatively new springdoc supports javadoc[1] as descriptions, which is better than the annotation.[1] https://springdoc.org/#javadoc-support
avolpe·2 years ago·discussFor the happy path, the Java code works great, but a good open API spec also includes the following:- examples, they are a pain to write in Java annotations.- multiple responses, ok, invalid id, not found, etc.- good descriptions, you can write descriptions in annotations (particularly post Java 14) but they are overly verbose.- validations, you can use bean validation, but if you implement the logic in code it's not easy to add that to the generated spec.See for example this from springfox https://github.com/springfox/springfox/blob/master/springfox...It's overly verbose and the generated open API spec is not very good.
[1] https://springdoc.org/#javadoc-support